Today marks the day that everybody should be playing The Sims 3 if it was released on schedule. People on the Sims 2 BBS are calling this day ‘Delay Day’. As I mentioned many times before, I for one am actually glad they delayed it. I believe everyone should be, after all, we’ve heard countless times how buggy the game was from the Creator Camp attendees.
It makes it easier on all of us with the fact that they now have more time to find and correct these flaws. After all, if it did make it’s original ship date, it’s very possible that the BBS and other sites would be flooded with gameplay issues! Of course, I cannot deny the fact that there still may be bugs even when the game ships in June, but hopefully not as many! What are your thoughts on today? Are you glad, mad, celebrating or is it just another day? 😛
I’d prefer to be playing the game even if it had bugs. I would be able to do one thing if something else didn’t work that well, and meanwhile they would be working on a patch.
You don’t need so many months for fixing bugs. This was for marketing reasons. I highly doubt they will add anything else to the game.
Happy Delay Day!
All the best for the fiscal year.
Uhmm… Here in Spain, the gfame has been delayed two days. Now, the game is in stores on the 4th of June, but EA has said that the reason is because the game has to be on EA Store and in the market the same day.
Hey, I’m from Spain too! This delay sucks!
If you can remimber, Sims 2 had bugs in it and the created patches for the on the web site. The real reasion is advertising, Not too many people even knew about the sims 3 release.
If you can remimber, Sims 2 had bugs in it and they created patches for the on the web site. The real reasion is advertising, Not too many people even knew about the sims 3 release.
Yes, they did admit it was for advertising, and some people at Maxis came that they had to work in the game time after. It’s primarily for marketing reasons.
If EA wanted to advertise they could have just made a few commericals for tv, and paste ads on the web and such, they don’t need 100 more awfully long and boring days until it comes out!!!!
Pfft, this delay isn’t for fixing bugs or anything like that. The game was ready to ship. They’re doing this delay specifically for advertising. They say not enough people know about The Sims 3, they say that the audience needs to be broadened, so they make a commercial and delay the game three months. Frankly, I think the audience is large enough as is, everyone in my city who’s a Sims fan I know, and they know of The Sims 3. EA’s gonna lose more money than it makes, I know several people who are now boycotting the company, and have canceled their preorders with no intent to reorder the game. I’m expecting half, maybe more, will just get the game off the torrent net, and even then, they’ll be the lucky ones if The Sims 3 ships with SecuROM. I believe that all factors should be taken into account for this. One more thing. Between the delay announcement, and to this day, I have not seen a SINGLE commercial or ad of any type for The Sims 3 on TV or radio, or anything. I watch G4TV (Gaming, Technology channel) and several others that should be airing anything involving The Sims 3. Yet I see nothing. What EA has done to themselves is dig a hole, one that may cause a nice, big hit to their sales. They’ve also done this same thing with The Godfather II
They will be revealing some screens every three or four days, give a couple of interviews a week, make some feature, etc. Some of the “base” advertising is more subtle.
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